Hard Air Magazine Online Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement discloses the privacy practices for Hard Air Magazine (www.hardairmagazine.com). This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this web site. It notifies you of the following:

What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.

What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email to info@hardairmagazine.com:

See what data we have about you, if any.

Change/correct any data we have about you.

Have us delete any data we have about you.

Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site.

Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

Subscription

If you elect to receive regular notifications about Hard Air Magazine by email subscription, you must first complete the Subscription Sign-Up form. During sign-up you are required to give certain information (name and email address). This information is used to email your HAM subscription to you.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Hard Air Magazine partners with Third Parties to provide services for our magazine. These include Google Analytics and MailChimp. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. For full information about their privacy and security policies, please check their websites.

Google Analytics provides us with aggregated demographic and other information that we share with our partners and advertisers. This is done by using IP Addresses but is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

MailChimp is the “engine” which powers the HAM Subscription Service. Obviously MailChimp requires your provided name and email address to send your Subscription, but this personally-attributable information is not shared with any Third Party. MailChimp complies with the U.S.–E.U. and U.S.–Swiss Safe Harbor Framework, which is overseen by the U.S. Department of Commerce and covers the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland.

Links

Hard Air Magazine contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites.

If you choose to take advantage of special offers, advertisers’ links etc contained in Hard Air Magazine or in Subscription emails, any information you share with these other sites is governed by the Privacy Policy of those sites.

We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally-identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by Hard Air Magazine.

Surveys and Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information.

Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level).

Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately by email to info@hardairmagazine.com.